@Lilissen It is what it is, honestly as a Switch user who plays Warframe I get what you're saying. The people can and will be toxic. And thanks I am enjoying Elden Ring.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

I've raided with people who play 14 on console.

Personally I'd invest in a keyboard to use for playing on console just so you can actually type shit in chat like a sane person but playing the whole thing with controller is incredibly viable.

@Fabricant451 Actually the Ps4 controller works really well.

I don't know how similar the games are, but I made that switch for Monster Hunter World and the Icebourne DLC and had zero regrets.

I stopped playing when I got to the End End Game of Icebourne.

MHW & MHW:IB was my first Monster Hunter game.

I used a lot of stuff a little but I mained Longsword, Lance, and LBG. I tried that Gunsword thing a fair bit too.

My only real complaint is that as you progress to the very end you really have to make use of the clutch claw and the tenderizing aspect of it to progress. Unless you're just a God. I was not.

I played MHW on XBox until Lunastra came out and then got IB, tried to push through with endgame gear and barely got past Ice Tiger. Got it again on PC like a year later, caught up, and used the IB Gear to get through the story. Never hit the red or black dragon but beat the basic story and opened up that last weird area

Mafia will be free to keep on Steam between Sept 1st - 5th. The promo hasn't started yet, but I figured to make sure y'all are aware that you can get a free game.

Gaming laptop.

Nitro 5, the like 1050 Ti one. Not amazing but I got a great deal on it. $500 back when I got it in like 2020 and sells for like $700-800 now.

Okay. So I finished the few (twenty seven) games on my phone. With a few decent surprises. But I'm glad that I didn't need to pay for any of them. <.<'

"Dandara: Trials Of Fear Edition" was the one I was most eager to try. (Due to it being a Metroidvania & liking its art style.) Thus, I tried to save the best for last. But the controls weren't good enough for how bullshit the gameplay was. (And it didn't even have the proper controller support as advertised. Since the (PS4) buttons weren't properly displayed.

"Ticket To Earth" was one that I almost avoided due to its unappealing art style. But I'll give it this, the core gameplay loop is actually pretty engaging. For a while. (And it felt like a more 'full' experience. For a phone game.) But the many characters, dialogue-heavy cutscenes, and storyline were so damn uninteresting. (That I didn't get past Chapter Two. Because its combat was getting a little repetitive for its own good.) And there was nothing else keeping me there.

"Detective Mimo" does Doki Doki Literature Club better. (If that doesn't kind of spoil the game's tricks already.) But with this, and "There Is No Game", 'quirky puzzle games that take full advantage of being on a phone', seem to be the best genre of app games.

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And the reward for "most egregious game to pay money for" goes to...

*drum roll*

"A Normal Lost Phone" has FIVE goddamn puzzles and the shittiest music you'll ever hear, for about 4 bucks. (I swear it had to be made on a "I dare you to make a game less interesting than Gone Home" bet.) With it also having a very mysterious mystery.

Here, let me give you the set up, and you can take a wild stab in the dark at guessing its conclusion.

Game: Reading texts of how this person's parents are very unapproving of him suddenly breaking up with his girlfriend. And they're so so so confused as to why their son wouldn't date the perfect girl (As you're hearing the shittest indie music imaginable, playing on a loop in the background.)

This is not a mystery, writers. Try harder.

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But I digress. Now I get to focus on my Steam library, and play real video games. Yay!

Me want Silksong.

Me want Silksong.

We all do. ;-;

Currently waiting for Final Fantasy XIV to download, I have succumb ed to the sweet temptation of yet another MMO.